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Four Steps to Lasting Results

"For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?" (1 John 5:4-5)

I've got good news! Jesus wants you to be free from every kind of bondage - whether it be overeating, cigarette smoking, alcohol abuse, or fear that you'll gain back the weight you've lost. Before you start a regular exercise plan and change your habits, be sure to put these four steps to work for you so your results will last.

1) Make Jesus Your Lord (1 John 5:1-4)
Making Jesus Lord over everything in your life - from your spirit to your physical body - will be the best decision you've ever made. It's also a very necessary decision in order to involve God's anointing in your freedom. Isaiah 10:27 says God's anointing is His burden-removing, yoke-destroying power - and it's just what you need to stop the power of sin and death once and for all.

2) Put Your Hope and Faith in God (2 Cor. 10:4-5)
Too many times we put our hope in carnal weapons - diets, pills, certain kinds of exercise - and then, by faith, we believe that those things are going to win our warfare. But when you put your hope and faith in carnal things, there's no substance. You're deceived into fighting a spiritual warfare in the arena of the flesh. So put your hope and faith in God. It's the only sure way to lasting victory.

3) Realize the Past Doesn't Matter (2 Cor. 5:17)
Once you were born again, all things became new. You were reborn with right standing before God, and you received all the ability it takes to walk in victory all the days of your life. It doesn't matter how many times you've failed, put your hope in a weight-loss product or anything else, because now you can do all things through the Anointed One and His Anointing.

4) Walk in the Spirit (Gal. 5:16)
When you walk in the Spirit, you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh. Instead, you'll begin to develop the fruit of the Spirit as you fill yourself with God's Word and discover who you are in Christ. And it's the fruit of the Spirit - patience, faithfulness and self-control - that gives you the power to overcome.

So get your hope off diets, "fast fixes" and carnal weapons today, and put your hope in God. Because when you put your hope and faith in Him, you'll release the power of His yoke-destroying anointing to produce burden-removing results that will last!

Did you ever stop to think about it? Selfishness ruins the world. Selfishness ruins marriages, and it ruins the church. But the God-kind of love never fails because it's unselfish, and it always puts the other fellow first.

God's love is giving, and the God-kind of love thinks of other people first, just as God did: "God so loved the world that He gave…" (John 3:16). When sinners in the world were unlovely, God gave His only begotten Son, "…that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16).

You Must Crucify The Flesh
But, you see, we human beings get our feelings hurt, and then we want to strike back and retaliate instead of exercising forgiveness. Our feelings want to show up and our flesh wants to act up.

That's what the Word means when it says we have to "crucify the flesh" (Gal. 5:24). I don't know about you, but I refuse to get hurt feelings about anything.

Some say as they're bawling, squalling, and carrying on, "But you don't know how bad you hurt me!" That's selfishness showing up, not the God-kind of love, because you're only thinking about yourself. When you talk like that, you're allowing your flesh and your feelings to dominate you.

When your feelings dominate you, you're going to have to get out of the flesh and get into the Spirit so you can walk in the God-kind of love! The Bible says,

"…ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you…" (Rom. 8:9).

Come on over and walk in the Spirit! Come up higher and walk in the God-kind of love! It's so much better. And I'll tell you, it pays rich dividends!

If you want to love life and see many good days, you'd better listen! Thank God, the love of God works.

Someone said, "But I've failed so much in the past!" Well, if you've failed in the past, then ask God's forgiveness and put that all behind you. Start over in the present! One thing about it, God will let you start all over again because in His great mercy and in His great love, He is forgiving!

Aren't you glad God is that way? God said, "I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins" (Isa. 43:25).

So even if you do miss it, if you repent, God will forgive you, blot it out, and not even remember that you did anything wrong! So start walking in His forgiveness and mercy and get on with your life.